Preston Curriculum
Intent
What is the Preston Curriculum?
Our Preston Curriculum centres around life skills. We know that in an ever evolving world we have to ensure that children have the skills that they need to adapt and learn in order to be able to play a part in the society of not only today, but tomorrow. The Preston Curriculum is ours, built by us, trialled by us and developed as it needs to. It centres around three questions.
1. What traits do we want to see in our Preston children?
2. Knowing their backgrounds what do we need to teach more of?
3. What do we value in education that has been slimmed down or disappeared?
From this we developed our curriculum of
Independence
Creative thinking
Resilience and confidence
Teamwork
Critical thinking
Our community
As a group of staff we spent over a year developing and deciding what each of these areas would look like in each year group. It is important to understand that the progression documents are just starting points, as the teacher of that class knows that cohort the best and what they need as a group and as individuals. The long term progression framework gives the basic structure that the teacher then plans from, not all strands feature in all year groups. Each year our overview is
Long term Plan
| Autumn One | Autumn Two | Spring One | Spring Two | Summer One | Summer Two |
| Independence | Creative Thinking | Resilience and confidence | Teamwork | Critical Thinking | Enterprise and our community |
See our Preston Curriculum Intention Framework here
